Sun and Bleck 2001

Sun, S., and R. Bleck, 2001: Atlantic thermohaline circulation and its response to increasing CO₂ in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4223-4226, doi:10.1029/2001GL013325.

We discuss aspects of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) and its response to increased greenhouse gas concentration, using a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) whose oceanic component is a new hybrid-isopycnal model. Two 200-year model integrations are carried out — a control run assuming fixed atmospheric composition and a perturbation run assuming gradual doubling of CO₂. We employ no flux corrections at the air-sea interface, nor do we spin up the ocean prior to coupling. The surface conditions in the control run stabilize after several decades. When doubling CO₂ at the rate of 1% per year, the model responds with a 2°C increase in global mean surface temperature (SAT) after 200 years and a virtually unchanged Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. The latter is maintained by a salinity increase that counteracts the effect of global warming on the surface buoyancy.

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Sun, S., and Bleck, R.: Atlantic thermohaline circulation and its response to increasing CO₂ in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4223-4226, doi:10.1029/2001GL013325, 2001.

Sun, S., and R. Bleck (2001), Atlantic thermohaline circulation and its response to increasing CO₂ in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4223-4226, doi:10.1029/2001GL013325.

Sun, S., and R. Bleck, 2001: Atlantic thermohaline circulation and its response to increasing CO₂ in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4223-4226, doi:10.1029/2001GL013325.

Sun, S., & Bleck, R. 2001, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4223, doi:10.1029/2001GL013325.

Sun S, Bleck R. Atlantic thermohaline circulation and its response to increasing CO₂ in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model, Geophys Res Lett 2001;28:4223-4226. doi:10.1029/2001GL013325.

S. Sun, R. Bleck, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 4223-4226, doi:10.1029/2001GL013325 (2001).